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Founder of Workers' Party of Korea

October 10 is the founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Its founder is the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.

Revolutionary Party of Juche

The WPK is a political organization leading the people with responsibility for their destiny and the organizer and guide of all victories of the Korean people.
From the initial period of his revolutionary career, Comrade Kim Il Sung regarded the party building as the fundamental issue of the revolution, chose the way completely different from the former general mode of party founding and wisely led the struggle for its realization.
The work for founding a working-class party was conducted in various ways with different aspects in the countries under different socio-historical conditions and at different stages of revolutionary development, Lecturer Paek Jin Hyang at the Korean Revolution Museum said and continued:
"It was an important issue decisive of the destiny of the country and nation to successfully accomplish the cause of building a working-class party, the general staff of the revolution, in the struggle for realizing the independence of the masses of the people.
The principle of party founding presented by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung in an original way was the principle of independence and its ideal was a revolutionary party of Juche type.
And the mode of party founding was to found a party in the way of laying firm organizational and ideological foundations for party founding, forming grass-roots organizations first and, on this basis, expanding and strengthening them."
Comrade Kim Il Sung formed the Society for Rallying Comrades, the first party organization, with young communists of new generation in Kalun in July 1930. With it as the parent body, he expanded and strengthened the grass-roots organizations and trained many hard-core members to prepare the organizational backbone for party founding.
And he firmly rallied the broad masses from all walks of life under the banner of the anti-Japanese struggle by awakening them to their ideological consciousness and organizing them during the whole period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, thereby consolidating the mass foundation for founding a revolutionary party of new type.
In August 1945, Comrade Kim Il Sung wisely led the work for founding a working-class party in the liberated country.
He put forward the policy on founding a unified party with the fighters trained and hardened in the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and the revolutionaries who were active at home and abroad. And he dispatched anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters to different regions to readjust and strengthen the already-existing party organizations and organize new ones where there were none.
On the basis of such preparations, he convened a preliminary meeting for founding the party on October 5, 1945 and the historic inaugural conference for the founding of the party on October 10 and proclaimed the founding of the revolutionary party of Juche all over the world.
Along with the founding of the WPK, the Korean people could shape their destiny with their reliable vanguard detachment, a militant general staff, and a new history of revolutionary party building in the era of independence started.

Emblem of the WPK

The hammer, sickle and writing brush in the emblem of the Workers' Party of Korea symbolize the working class, farmers and intellectuals. And the crossing of the hammer, sickle and writing brush at one point means unity and cohesion of the working people.
The Party emblem was completed thanks to the special concern and meticulous guidance of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.
In July 1946, Comrade Kim Il Sung examined the draft designs of the Party emblem and said to officials: Our Party emblem should depict a worker, a farmer and an intellectual. Only then, can we show symbolically that the WPK is a unified party of the working people.
The worker might be represented with a hammer, the farmer with a sickle and the intellectual with a pen, but it would be better to represent the intellectual with a writing brush in our way.
There were a lot of debates among people when the issue of putting the writing brush symbolic of the intellectuals into the Party emblem was raised. At that time, some people insisted that the writing brush should not be drawn in the Party emblem because the intellectuals are a wavering class that can play a double-barrelled game, saying they are not an independent class but an intermediary stratum of the society.
Just at the time, Comrade Kim Il Sung said: It is, of course, true that the intellectuals are not an independent class but a stratum of the society. However, as we cannot defend the country without arms, it is impossible to build a country without intellectuals. A writing brush should be drawn in the Party emblem.
Afterwards, too, Comrade Kim Il Sung examined the remade design of the Party emblem on several occasions and fixed the positions of the hammer, sickle and writing brush. And he explained that the writing brush in the middle should be a little higher than the hammer and the sickle and it means that all the workers and farmers should have high knowledge and culture and do their best to contribute to building a prosperous and civilized independent, sovereign state in the future.
That is how the emblem of the WPK representing the working people came into being.